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1  Zeena seemed to understand his case at a glance.
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2  The iron heavens seemed to melt and rain down sweetness.
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3  It seemed unworthy of the girl that his thoughts of her should be so violent.
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4  To him, who was never gay but in her presence, her gaiety seemed plain proof of indifference.
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5  The girl seemed to waver, and Frome saw her twirl the end of her scarf irresolutely about her fingers.
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6  Seen thus, from the pure and frosty darkness in which he stood, it seemed to be seething in a mist of heat.
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7  She seemed to possess by instinct all the household wisdom that his long apprenticeship had not instilled in him.
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8  Not for the world would he have made a sign to her, though it seemed to him that his life hung on her next gesture.
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9  He forgot what else he had meant to say and pressed her against him so closely that he seemed to feel her warmth in his veins.
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10  Then a man's figure approached, coming so close to her that under their formless wrappings they seemed merged in one dim outline.
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11  His son seemed likely to follow in his steps, and was meanwhile applying the same arts to the conquest of the Starkfield maidenhood.
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12  He used to think that fifty years sounded like a long time to live together, but now it seemed to him that they might pass in a flash.
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13  At other times her silence seemed deliberately assumed to conceal far-reaching intentions, mysterious conclusions drawn from suspicions and resentments impossible to guess.
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14  When she came to take care of his mother she had seemed to Ethan like the very genius of health, but he soon saw that her skill as a nurse had been acquired by the absorbed observation of her own symptoms.
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15  The dancers were going faster and faster, and the musicians, to keep up with them, belaboured their instruments like jockeys lashing their mounts on the home-stretch; yet it seemed to the young man at the window that the reel would never end.
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16  It was a fact that since Mattie Silver's coming he had taken to shaving every day; but his wife always seemed to be asleep when he left her side in the winter darkness, and he had stupidly assumed that she would not notice any change in his appearance.
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17  As she passed down the line, her light figure swinging from hand to hand in circles of increasing swiftness, the scarf flew off her head and stood out behind her shoulders, and Frome, at each turn, caught sight of her laughing panting lips, the cloud of dark hair about her forehead, and the dark eyes which seemed the only fixed points in a maze of flying lines.
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